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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott
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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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John Robert Walmsley Stott
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
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The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
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I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him
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